Principal/Sr. Principal DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems (NGMS) is seeking a Principal/ Sr. Principal DeOps Engineer to maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks onsite at our Port San Antonio site in San Antonio, TX. DAF CLOUDworks is a rapidly growing secure cloud program that encompasses 10+ teams. These teams span all different areas of cloud engineering including information security, infrastructure development, and cloud migration. You will be an active part of one of these teams providing technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks. Along with operations and sustainment, DAF CLOUDworks focuses on modifying and enhancing offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment. Successful candidates should have a track record as an effective communicator and problem solver who is able to develop and maintain good working relationships with internal stakeholders, be able to follow Agile Development process and full life cycle development, interface with multiple, geographically disbursed teams and effectively communicate project statuses and blockers, and have the ability to support 24X7 on-call.
Requirements
- US Citizenship is required.
- An active Top Secret clearance with SCI, or an inactive TS/SCI clearance that was debriefed less than two years ago.
- Able to obtain IAT Level II certification per DoD 8570.01 such as CASP+ or Security+ within 60 days of start date.
- Expertise with infrastructure components, including network, storage, Linux/Windows, and IT security concepts.
- Strong technical knowledge of Cloud-based technologies (AWS Platform, Azure Platform, Google Cloud).
- Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and microservices.
- Experience with networking.
- Experience scripting in Bash or PowerShell.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and tools (Atlassian suite: Jira, Confluence).
- Ability to support 24X7 on-call.
Nice To Haves
- An active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).
- CompTIA Security+ certification or IAT Level II equivalent per DoD 8570.01.
- Certified (associate level or above) in cloud platform (AWS Platform >= Solutions Architect Associate, Azure Platform >= Azure Administrator Associate, Google >= Google Cloud Engineer).
- Expertise leveraging git for code management (ArgoCD, Flux, Gitlab).
- Experience with administering cloud-based networking (ACL, Security Groups, WAF).
- Demonstrated experience in cloud adoption, environment prototyping, and data migration.
- Knowledge of account management solutions (RBAC, AWS IAM, Azure AD).
- Strong interpersonal, problem-solving, organizational, and multi-tasking skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and enhance capabilities in support of DAF CLOUDworks.
- Provide technical support of customers leveraging DAF CLOUDworks.
- Modify and enhance offerings to implement new requirements, enhance functionality, increase efficiency, or lower operating/deployment.
- Support 24X7 on-call.
Benefits
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- Health insurance coverage.
- Life and disability insurance.
- Savings plan.
- Company paid holidays.
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.
- Overtime.
- Shift differential.
- Discretionary bonus.
- Annual bonuses.
- Long Term Incentives (for VP or Director positions).
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
High school or GED
